So I was sitting here licking my wounds after being power burned to extra crispy when a bizarre thought entered my head.
What would it cost to be the first person in the game to possess a 7* champ? 7* champs are supposed to become available to the players sometime later this year, but the crystal vault has the crystals right there. Sure, its there as a placeholder so we can see our shards, but if it is in the vault that should mean there's an actual crystal there, right?
Right?
Okay, so what would it cost to buy one, like right now? Well, the only way to earn 7* shards is to dup 6* champs, and while there are lots of ways to earn 6* shards/champs, really, for the numbers we are talking about none of them will really work in this century except one: buying Cav crystals. Cav crystals have a 3% chance to drop a 6* champ, which means every Cav crystal contains, on average, the equivalent of about 300 6* shards (0.03 x 10000). But we also have to consider 5* champs. The Cav crystal has a 16% chance to drop a 5* champ, and 5* dups generate 6* shards. If we assume all your 5* champs are max sig (and trust me, for anyone attempting to do this, they will be) then a 5* champ is equal to about 550 6* shards (more or less: there are rare drops that are not shards, but they are rare enough to not change the numbers much). Which means the actual amount of 6* value we get from each Cav is about 0.03 x 10000 + 0.16 x 550 = 300 + 88 = 388.
Cav crystals cost 200 units, but I'm going to assume the Thronebreaker discounted price of 175. That means to earn the equivalent of one 6* champ requires, on average, 10000/388 x 175 = 4510 units.
We're going to need *a lot* of dups. 999,999,999 / 550 = 1,818,182 6* champ dups, more or less. Which means 1818182 x 4510 = 8.2 billion units. At 3100 units per Odin this is about 2,645,162 Odins, or in USD terms $264,516,200.
Now, I would assume that there's a crystal for every crystal vault entry. I'm not sure what the crystal would actually contain, however. Would one of the whales out there drop about a quarter billion dollars on Odins, buy about 47 million Cavs, and then use the shards to buy a 7* crystal? And please record the opening so we can all see what's in it.
Hey, you will be the first,
guaranteed.
